... 1960 and 2002.
The Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection at Kensington Palace contains many dresses worn by the princess, including two worn in the 1950’s.
A glamorous evening dress of cream silk satin ...

... is very supple as two weave points never touch one another, the material is silk or synthetic fibre. Sateen uses the same weave, the material used is cotton. Charmeuse is a very light satin, once only ...

... took silk as ground material for the embroidery and used cotton thread to embroider. With caustic soda he burned out the silk and the cotton embroidery remained. Wetter put the first chemical lace on the ...

... yellow Lyon silk and decorated with myosotis satin ribbons. As a great peculiarity Worth designed this dress to be worn without a crinoline.
Whether any of the three lace dresses mentioned in the literature ...

... white, which makes white colors blindingly so, is a new invention. White in the 1700s was more like what we today call off-white or beige.
Fabrics: Real silk drapes, handles, sounds, and feels different ...

... evidence when he was accused of intimacy with Queen Caroline Mathilde and misuse of power. He admitted to having bought the pink pair of silk garters for the Queen, at her request, but explained that she ...

... to deduce that she enjoyed the Queen’s favor, as the dress of silk and lace are equal to what fashionable women at court wore.
The bodice, skirt and hooded overgown are all made of a bright green patterned ...